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If. 1:". RAYMOND, 2d. PROGESS 0F APPLYING TOP LIFTS T0 HEEL BLANKS.

No. 322,561. Patented July 21, 1885.

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UNITED STATES PATENT Orrrcrr.

FREEBORN F. RAYMOND, 21), OF NEWTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

PROCESS OF APPLYING TOP LIFTS TO HEEL-BL ANKS.

"SPECIFICATION forming paftof Letters Patent No. 322,561, dated July 21,1885.

Application filed January 17 1885. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, FREEBORN F. RAYMOND, 2d, of Newton, in the county ofMiddlesex and State of Massachusetts, a citizen of the United States,have invented a new and useful Improvement in the Process of Applyingheel-blank, and upon these projecting ends the top lift is secured bywhatis known among shoemakers as spanking.

By the process herein described the attaching-nails are driven flushwith the upper surface of the heel-blank, and the top lift is thenapplied with considerable pressure, whereby the heel is compressedsufficiently to leave portions of the nail projecting for holding thetop lift. This method of applying the top lift is principally applicableto the National Heeling Machine, so called.

In the drawings, Figure 1 represents a portion of a National vHeelAttaching Machine with the heel-blank in position and the naildrivers.Fig. 2 shows the heel-blank after the driving of the attaching-nails andbefore the application of thetop lift. Fig. 3 shows the heel-blank withthe top lift applied.

In practicing my process I take a heel-blank and place itin position inthe machine upon the sole of the boot or shoe and under thepressure-plate, and arrange the pressure so that the heel-blank is onlymoderately compressed by the pressure-plate in the act of driving theawls and the attaching nails. (See Fig. 1). The attaching-nails a,however, are

driven so that their points a clinch upon the iron heelsupport b, andtheir heads 0 are flush with the upper surface of the heel-blank. Thetop liftd is then applied to the heel-blank, but I with considerablemore pressure than is usually employed in fastening the same in place,and this pressure,being communicated to the heelblank, compresses itstill further, and the heel-attaching nails being left standing upon theiron support or button are not changed as to their length, so that uponthe further com pression of thehecl-blank, upon the application of thetop lift they enter the top lilt and hold it firmly in place, (see Fig.3,) the leather or substance of the heel-blank by this furthercompression being bound or compressed tightly about and against theheel-attaching nails,and is held down in place thereby. Glue or cementmay also be used for assisting in attaching the heel-blank,if desired,but by the application of sufficient pressure sufficient portions of theattaching-nails are embedded in the substance of the top lift to hold itfirmly in place.

The advantages of the invention are obvious.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim and desire to secureby Letters Patent of the United States The process of attaching toplifts to heel--' blanks, consisting, first, in moderately compressingthe'heel-blank and driving the attaching-nails while thus moderatelycompressed to an iron-surfaced support, and, second, in then applyingthe top lift upon the heel-blank, still further compressing the same andcansing the ends of the attaching-nails to be unj covered and embeddedin the top lift, all sub stantially as and for the purposes described.

FBEEBORN F. RAYMOND,2D.

Witnesses:

Trros. WM. CLARK, FRED. B. DOLAN. I

